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4.5

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Shopify Search & Discovery

Shopify Search & Discovery is a free, official app from Shopify designed to improve your store’s shopping experience by delivering better product search results, customizable filters, and personalized product recommendations.

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Shopify Search & Discovery allows merchants to easily customize their store’s search functionality, filtering, and product recommendations—no coding required. Create and manage filters so customers can narrow results by size, color, category, and more, making product discovery intuitive.

The app also supports synonym groups so searches use shopper-friendly language, and lets you feature or “boost” specific products in search results. On your product pages, you can show related or complementary products using intelligent recommendations, helping increase basket size. Additionally, the app offers helpful analytics so you can see what customers are searching for and refine your store experience accordingly. Setup is quick and seamless via the Shopify admin—making great search accessible even for beginners.

App Pricing Model and Plans

Shopify Search & Discovery is completely free and developed by Shopify. There are no hidden fees, tiers, or upgrade prompts—just install and improve your store’s product discovery experience at no extra cost.

Conclusion

For merchants looking to elevate their customers’ shopping experience, Shopify Search & Discovery is a must-have free app. It provides all the core features needed for smarter searching, meaningful filtering, and targeted recommendations, while being easy to use and directly supported by the Shopify team. For most stores, it’s a powerful upgrade over the basic Shopify search and collections experience.

Pros

  • Free and official: No cost and fully supported by Shopify.
  • Easy integration: Works natively within Shopify admin, simple setup.
  • Customizable filters: Let customers refine by multiple attributes.
  • Boost & recommend products: Upsell with related or featured items.
  • Analytics included: Track search performance to optimize store.

cons

  • Filter and option limits: Maximum of 25 storefront filter options; not sufficient for large catalogs or complex product lines.
  • Semantic search issues: Some users dislike that SKU searches or partial numbers often don’t return relevant results.
  • Out-of-stock handling: Settings for hiding out-of-stock items are limited and may not affect all pages.
Tomas Janu

Tomas Janu

Tom loves writing about upselling, conversion optimization, and e-commerce trends. He is one of our co-founders, and you can sometimes talk to him if you contact our support team. Make sure to follow him on LinkedIn for more Shopify-related tips and news.

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